Minutes for 6TISCH at interim-2016-6tisch-13
minutes-interim-2016-6tisch-13-1

Minutes, 23 September 2016 interim, 6TiSCH WG

Note: timestamps in PDT.
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Taking notes (using Etherpad)

    Xavier Vilajosana
    Michael Richardson
    Pascal Thubert

Present (alphabetically)

    Thomas Watteyne
    Pascal Thubert
    Diego Dujovne
    Georgios Papadopoulos
    Malisa Vucinic
    Marcelli (???)
    Michael Richardson
    Qin Wang
    Rashid Sangi
    Sumankumar Panchal
    Tengfei Chang
    Xavier Vilajosana

Action Items

    Pascal to fix the milestone ( draft name)
    Thomas to ask consensus on rcv initiated 6P transaction and cell suggestion
    Xavi to start a thread for consensus pn number of cells in response
    Xavi to propose to carry the link option in teh 6top protocol

Agenda

    Administrivia [3min]
        Approval agenda

        Approval minutes last call

        working with 802 [5min]

    6top protocol [10min]
        agreeing on action items, milestones and next steps
            Receiver Initiated 6P Transactions
            Receiver 6P Cell Suggestion
            dynamic number of cells in reply
    Next steps for SF0 [30min]
        Target? Experimental?
        status and next steps
        Cell allocation Scheme
    AOB [2min]

Minutes

    [07.05] (expected 07:05) Administrivia [3min]
        Meeting starts, agenda Bashing
        agenda and minutes of last call approve
        udpate of charter . renaming 6top protocol from sublayer.
        date of december to submit 6top and sf0 to the iesg. Would be desirable
        to send the documents by the next ietf meeting Thomas: adding to the
        charter 4th etsi plugtest in the next year july ietf meeting (2017)
        [implies no plugfest in Feb.2017? I guess no] paging dispatch document
        submitted to IESG. reviewed by all the areas. Good feedback. routing
        dispatch is the real 6lorh, this is reviewed and will be pushed to the
        IESG routing dispatch and paging dispatch drafts should update
        rfc6550-51-52-53. minimal draft is in the internet area review. Hanging
        there. Michael: every second tuesday meeting of the security design
        team.
    [07.??] (expected 07:08) working with 802 [5min]
        An IEEE and IETF meeting in Paris happened last week. discussion about
        things that are crossing both groups. 6TiSCH IEs in 6top. The IETF is
        requesting to the IEEE. 6lo is requesting an Ethertype to the IEEE.
        There will be an official ethertype like IPv6.
    [07.??] (expected 07:13) 6top protocol [10min]
        Thomas: draft is almost ready.
        2 ideas that are floating. Receiver initiated transactions. Receiver
        cell ... allow the node to limit the numbr of cells if not enough room
        in the packet due to IE Xavi: I'm handling that. 1st idea (rcv
        initiated transaction): consensus? If yes I can handle it. Thomas:
        action item to get consensus on that on the ML Xavi: no strong opinion.
        Mechanism looks simple; again need consensus. Pascal: 2 action items
        for Thomas, one for Xavi Xavi: also need to validate the draft on
        missing ack. check that there is a timeout on the 2 way transaction?
        Thomas: only missing point is security, making progress. Very close to
        a full package
    [07.??] (expected 07:23) Next steps for SF0 [30min]
        Thomas: reviewed SF0. Needs work; This is a key piece, the default
        brains. Thomas: slide 18 identifies questions, Diego is the only author
        present Need level of evaluatuion / proof to get std track. Pascal:
        need to track the issues as tickets on the IETF tracker, please use
        different threads for each ticket Pascal to handle the issue tracking
        in the IETF tracker to track the threads to resolution. many acronyms
        in the draft makes it confusing. Simplify, the acronyms for the data
        flows. outband bandwidth is not calculated correctly. Check the
        formulation. whitelist/blacklist is like a not, to say if we want to
        reserve cells out of the available (blacklist). Whitelist indicates
        just the list of cells that wants to be allocated. In the metadata this
        is specified. timeout calculation: is calculated as the number of cells
        until the next opportunity to transmit. This timeout should be larger
        than the normal delay instead as we need to take into account the PDR.
        tengfei: the timeout should be related to the backoff period. Not to
        the PDR. 6top protocol packets are sent on shared slots only? Pascal it
        should be more flexible, 2 extra slots per peer is sometimes too much,
        somtimes not enough. SHould be able to use chared slots. Thomas: it is
        up to the minimal configuration to decide the amount of shared cells.
        Pascal: That works for a minimal only solution, because we can tune the
        size of the slotframe. But here it will be dictated by eg how many
        slots are needed for all these peers, and one shared may not be enough.
        Suggestion is that SF0 also allowates shared slots taht teh parent
        exposes to selected children. Thomas: SF0 is a simple mechanism that is
        not aware of parent / child, keep it simple. Also the concept of shared
        slots is that all my neighbors see it. Pascal: a shared slot is used by
        everybody that knows about it. It is not a transitive proerty anyway.
        Xavi: proposal to use the link option when a cell is requested in 6top.
        Action to add linkoption to the 6p draft. Pascal: agrees to have the
        linkoption but by now we do not use it in the sf0
    [08.05] (expected 07:53) AOB [2min]
        nothing
    [08.08] (expected 07:55) Meeting ends